The Mindful Way Through Depression Program

This 8-week class is based on Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program, developed by Jon Kabat- Zinn, Ph.D. with additional elements of cognitive-behavioral techniques. The goal of this training is to build emotional resilience around the destructive thinking that triggers depressive episodes.

By participating in this class, students may expect to:

Begin to more clearly identify the patterns of mind that precede a depressive episode and to learn how to intervene.

Develop an understanding of negative thinking while practicing self-compassion and self-soothing.

Create a greater capacity to tolerate painful emotions, allowing distressing moods, thoughts and sensations to come and go without battling with them.

Discover that difficult and unwanted thoughts and feelings can be held in awareness and seen from a different perspective-a perspective that brings with it a sense of warmth and compassion to difficulties.

Learn to live more often in the present, to be in touch with the experience of being alive.